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date    = "2022-08-20T02:38:39+00:00"
lastmod = "2022-08-20T02:38:39+00:00"
tags    = [ "linux" ]
author  = "tdro"
+++

{{< disclose >}}
Offline friends, do you think that the Linux ecosystem is increasingly copying
the bad parts of software distribution from Windows and macOS?
{{</ disclose >}}

Surely typing/saying the below [Alpine](https://www.alpinelinux.org/) command to
install [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) is way easier than
who knows what multi--stage process other operating systems require.


```shell
apk add firefox
```

Google's search box (rather tongue in cheek) is the most popular command line
interface in use today. With {{< abbr NLP "Natural Language Processing" >}},
installing and running `firefox` would just be a phrase equivalent that compiles
to:

```shell
firefox
```

On [NixOS](https://nixos.org/), we can already do stuff like that. Of course,
NixOS lacks a translation/encapsulation layer for imperative to declarative
specification --- so user friendliness suffers dramatically.